From what I've seen, the Caucasian European women don't have such a problem with obesity. And they generally are healthier, which does translate to holding your looks longer. The main problem with these women is that there just aren't many of them on this side of the pond.
FWIW, I've started dating a lovely Asian lady too. It's really a breath of fresh air... and I'm not just talking about the physical attributes. Asians just seem to be a lot more sane and calm and rational than white American women, and also have more realistic expectations.
Wrong and ignorant. It's not some non-management guy working in IT who decides what OS and software to use at a corporation. He's just taking advantage of the situation. The upper management makes decisions like that, based on input from vendor salespeople; the IT department's job is to support the products that upper management decides on.
1) there's not many other jobs there, so if your job doesn't work out, you now need to sell your house, pack up, and move somewhere else for a new job. This costs a lot of money up-front.
2) people who like west coast cities are not going to be happy with the social conservatism in the midwest, the complete lack of dating opportunities, etc. (Yes, there's an infamous lack of women in the Bay Area and Seattle, but it's even worse in the Midwest because all the single women there will be religious conservatives.)
It's really too bad the Nouveau guys don't have more resources. The Nvidia drivers are already very problematic because they don't integrate very well and don't support the newer kernel features. My laptop goes haywire any time I switch from docking station mode to regular mode or back; it really shouldn't be like that in 2016. Nouveau drivers are integrated much better, but their performance is lousy.
Yeah, no kidding. Just walking around in a public place here in the US, it's pretty obvious to me that, on average, it's the Asian women who are most attractive. Why? It's simple: how many fat Asian women do you ever see? They also seem to have an uncanny ability to not show any signs of aging until they're at retirement age.
Like it or not any company has to abide by the laws of the country they market their products in.
Not when the country is utterly dependent on that company and its products. You seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of what real power is, and how it can be wielded.
Do you honestly think that Microsoft could shut down all critical IT systems? If this was tried all Microsoft's assets in the country would be frozen and there would be a massive switch to alternative operating systems and applications around the world (yes you read correctly "the world").
See, this is where we disagree. I would love to see MS actually do this, and no, I really don't think there'd be a massive switch. MS has been making their systems more and more onerous for quite a while now, and no one's switched yet. I really don't think there's much of a limit to how much MS can abuse their customers. Don't forget, all these governments rely on all kinds of software that only runs on MS systems, and these ISVs aren't about to change either, because why should they? Their customers aren't going to switch to another vendor, because they're all locked in.
there are quite a few very smart IT people not living in the USA.
If there are, they aren't in decision-making positions because all these countries have happily made themselves completely dependent on an abusive US vendor instead of choosing one of many better alternatives. MS pulling the plug as a display of power isn't going to change this. The idiots will still be in charge, and will always be in charge. It'll be much, much easier to just submit to MS's wishes than to go to all the trouble of changing everything.
It's not silly. It earns them more revenue, which means more profit, which is good for the shareholders.
It may or may not be "desperate", but I sure don't see many people abandoning the Windows platform even with all these complaints about Windows 10. So if they can make more money with ads, and lose no real paying customers, why not do it?
No, you're an idiot. MS doesn't have to shut down their EU operation. They just have to shut down all the EU government computers for a week to show them who's really in control, and then triple their prices for them to be turned back on.
It's advertised as "professional", but you can advertise anything as that. The new Macbook Pro is also advertised as professional and it's consumer-grade too, though with a business-class price tag.
A car company could easily advertise a tiny mini-truck as "professional grade" and make a lame commercial of someone dropping loads of gravel in it (after modifying the suspension heavily so it doesn't collapse), but that doesn't really make it so.
Most people are just plain dumb. I'm no expert sewer, and don't know what a "surger" is either, but I can certain understand that there's more than 1 brand of sewing machine, and I can certainly grasp the concept that there's different types of sewing machines for different and perhaps specialized purposes. Sewing is a craft that's been around since prehistory and the invention of cloth garments, which probably goes back tens of thousands of years, so of course there's going to be a certain amount of complexity to it, and many different types of stitches, and of course competing companies selling machines to do this.
Not only that, but anyone with even half a brain should know by now that there's Apple computers out there (PCs/laptops, not just iPhones) which are not the same as Windows PCs. They even have stores in malls selling their overpriced computers. This isn't highly esoteric tech stuff any more. But I don't doubt there's still morons who don't get it.
This is no grounds for abuse my MS
Now this just isn't true. In a capitalist system, it's a company's job to extract as much profit from its customers as possible. If the customers really are so uninformed and stupid that they won't leave that company no matter how badly they're treated, whose fault is it? If 90% of everyone keeps buying Chrysler cars even though they're unreliable junk and catch on fire frequently, and they simply refuse to even consider a GM, Ford, Toyota, Honda, Mercedes, etc., no matter what, who's fault is that? Especially when they have one friend who has a Honda and raves about how great it is and how they never worry about their car catching on fire or the wheels falling off, but in response these people just roll their eyes and make snide comments about him?
Don't forget, MS went through an extremely public trial about this back in 1999, which was all over the news. People have had literally years and even decades of warning about MS's behavior. And during this time, Macs (as much as I hate them these days) have grown from a bit player to a pretty sizable (though small minority) player, and Linux has been around for 2 decades now. After all this time, I simply have no more sympathy for people who suffer willingly with these abuses by MS. There *are* alternatives, they've been around for a very long time, there simply is no excuse any more. This really is a case of the frog refusing to leave the boiling water (except in real life, that's an old wive's tale and real frogs aren't that stupid; only humans are).
Yeah yanking their licenses would actually be illegal and the EU would then eat Microsoft until all that was left is visual basic.
Hahaha! How exactly do you propose they do that? Microsoft is an American company, not a European one. MS can easily ignore any judgments in the EU.
And on top of that, how exactly are they going to pursue a case when all their governments are shut down because they have no IT systems working?
Remember Microsoft is the dependent one, without continued sales they disappear.
How's that a problem? No one in the US is going to stop using their software, no matter what. And in the EU, it's pretty simple: pay up, or else. Having all your critical IT systems shut down makes it pretty hard to run a company or a country.
Yeah no kidding. What the hell is this crap, anyway? 'Rewards' program? What the hell? Is this a supermarket chain now?
It's a consumer-grade OS. What's wrong with borrowing a concept from another area of consumer economics?
Microsoft and Windows 10 has become a very, very bad joke, and I don't even want to say what I'm starting to think about the people who honestly think it's 'good' in any way, shape, or form.
Well I for one think it's great. I'm thoroughly enjoying these stories, and reading about Windows users being pissed off by this stuff. They could stop at any time, but they continue to line up to accept more abuse, so I might as well have a good laugh at their expense. It's not like they weren't warned; MS has been an abusive vendor for at least 3 decades now. If that isn't enough warning, I don't know what is.
Hopefully MS will grow a backbone and tell the EU to shove it, and force them to have ads too. If the EU refuses or gives them any legal problems, MS can simply shut down all their government computers, yank their licenses, etc.
You don't make yourself utterly dependent on someone, and then tell them what they can and can't do.
I'm just passing the blame to the consumer. They're the ones who buy from companies like Apple, and enable this behavior.
This isn't the fault of a "capitalist system", it's the fault of stupid consumers.
If this were a monopoly situation, I'd feel a little differently. But Apple does not have anything even remotely resembling a monopoly. They sell a tiny minority of both smartphones and laptops. There's tons of alternatives out there, for both. Most people get along just fine with Android phones. Over in Asia, many people wouldn't dream of buying an iPhone because they lack critical features like dual SIM slots. Yes, they don't play well with others, but that's because stupid people give them exorbitant amounts of money for massively overpriced gadgets that are specifically designed to not play well with others. How can you blame Apple when they're just taking advantage of peoples' idiocy?
I make similar arguments about MS every time people start whining about how they're being abused by Win10, but to be fair, at least with MS there's a good argument that so much software and services is dependent on Windows and the MS ecosystem that it's not so easy to switch. (I still make the argument because I think they need it pointed out that part of the blame is on them for enabling that behavior with their money.) But with Apple, this just isn't the case. There's nothing you can do with an iPhone that you can't do with an Android phone, or with a MacBook that you can't do with a Thinkpad or Latitude, and with the alternatives you'll save a bunch of money too, and get something that actually does play at least somewhat well with others.
Does he complain about it? You should point out that he can certainly afford a $50-100 genuine Apple cable and has no business complaining since he can afford to buy the most expensive phone available.
Maybe this is why I don't have too many friends... that's OK, I prefer friends who are practical and not gullible trend-chasers.
So you buy a laptop that has fewer features and less capability, you pay 2-10x the price for it, and you need to buy and carry around a bunch of adapters for it, and you're OK with this?
That's some serious kool-aid you're drinking there. I can go buy a laptop for less than $500 that has all these features that are missing from the $2500 MBP.
Yeah, but the point is, who cares? You're not really supposed to be toting the thing around with a card inserted anyway; SD cards (on laptops anyway) are not meant to be permanently-mounted storage, they're meant to be used for data transfer only, such as being able to download the photos from your camera. When not in use, it's either empty or has a plastic filler card that doesn't stick out.
But it's true, the nicer laptops have spring-loaded slots, so the loaded SD card barely sticks out, while the crappy ones have non-spring-loaded slots. So Apple decided to go even cheaper than that and eliminate the slot altogether, while still charging an astronomical price for something that's a lot worse and less capable than a cheap-o $250 bargain basement laptop.
What I need from the technology industry is to PLAY WELL WITH OTHERS.
You are never, ever, going to get that from Apple. There's no use in crying about it. It's like getting mad that an insane serial killer won't stop trying to kill people, or that a rabid dog keeps trying to bite people. A tiger will never change its stripes. What people need to do is stop buying from companies like that.
No, the guy has a bit of a point, though he probably didn't express it very well.
The real key is that business laptops are not like consumer-grade laptops. Business laptops have to be more conservative, because they can be used in a lot of different environments, and compatibility and capability is more important than fancy looks and light weight and small size. Serious business laptops have always been bigger and bulkier, and have long retained older features for the sake of compatibility. I'm typing this now on an HP ProBook that's only about a year old, and it still has a VGA port. VGA is an ancient standard, and it's probably safe to eliminate it from consumer laptops now because everyone has an HDMI-capable TV now, but in many businesses, there's still conference room gear with VGA connections. Ethernet ports can be dropped in some slim, fancy, ultra-portable consumer laptop, but in a business laptop, it's necessary because WiFi might be down, or it might not even be allowed if you work in a secure installation.
Business laptops are not supposed to be attempting to lead the way technologically by eliminating legacy functions; they're supposed to be more conservative and hang onto this old stuff for longer. It's part of the trade-off. Yes, that results in a bulkier machine with old ports you might never use. If you don't like that, get a consumer laptop.
USB-C is a Standard, anyone can use that standard to make adaptors. This is not Apple proprietary hardware.
Given Apples prices, I would guess most people will buy what adaptors they need (if any) from 3rd parties.
Hopefully, Apple will prevent that. They can easily add a check in the OS so that only Apple-approved dongles are allowed, and others are ignored. This would be a good thing to do in the name of "protecting the customer" from "potentially harmful" 3rd-party devices. And of course would be great for boosting Apple's profits. With the prices of Apple laptops, their customers can certainly afford to spend $50 or $100 each on adapters, and have no right to complain about this.
There's a large overlap between professional and "prosumer". Your typical wedding photographer is certainly a "professional", but they're not using a Hasselblad medium-format with a tethered digital back, they're just using a standard high-end DSLR, which these days all use SD cards.
Similarly, professional truck drivers don't all drive 18-wheelers; many just drive box trucks like the UPS and FedEx drivers. They're still professional drivers, and they're a huge market.
Finally, what does it matter if the "prosumer" enthusiasts aren't exactly full-time professionals? They still demand high-end gear and systems that work well with that gear, without needless and unnecessary workarounds just because non-enthusiast consumers don't care about these features. Do you think an offroad driving enthusiast cares that almost zero car drivers care about having a winch on their vehicle, and would be happy to go without just because the masses don't think it's necessary? How well do you think a new offroad vehicle (Jeep I guess) would sell if they made it impossible to mount a winch on it? Or how well would a full-size pickup truck sell if they made it impossible to tow with it?
First off, not everything has to run Linux. Go look at the software running on your infuser pump; it's not Windows, nor is it Linux, it's some RTOS. Anything else would be criminally negligent. Your MRI machine doesn't need to run Linux (though it'd be nice), you just have to be able to communicate with it. What needs to run on Linux is the main infrastructure, patient records, billing, etc. Some scanner or whatever doesn't matter; if your MRI machine catches a virus and goes down, that sucks for anyone who had an MRI scheduled, but the rest of the hospital can continue operations without it, and not have to worry about getting infected by it too.
Finally, no hospital has "chiropractic thermal sensors", or chiropractic anything for that matter. Chiropractic isn't real medicine, it's bullshit, and you won't find it in a real hospital.
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Caucasian, or Caucasian American?
From what I've seen, the Caucasian European women don't have such a problem with obesity. And they generally are healthier, which does translate to holding your looks longer. The main problem with these women is that there just aren't many of them on this side of the pond.
FWIW, I've started dating a lovely Asian lady too. It's really a breath of fresh air... and I'm not just talking about the physical attributes. Asians just seem to be a lot more sane and calm and rational than white American women, and also have more realistic expectations.
Wrong and ignorant. It's not some non-management guy working in IT who decides what OS and software to use at a corporation. He's just taking advantage of the situation. The upper management makes decisions like that, based on input from vendor salespeople; the IT department's job is to support the products that upper management decides on.
They don't want to move there for good reasons:
1) there's not many other jobs there, so if your job doesn't work out, you now need to sell your house, pack up, and move somewhere else for a new job. This costs a lot of money up-front.
2) people who like west coast cities are not going to be happy with the social conservatism in the midwest, the complete lack of dating opportunities, etc. (Yes, there's an infamous lack of women in the Bay Area and Seattle, but it's even worse in the Midwest because all the single women there will be religious conservatives.)
It's really too bad the Nouveau guys don't have more resources. The Nvidia drivers are already very problematic because they don't integrate very well and don't support the newer kernel features. My laptop goes haywire any time I switch from docking station mode to regular mode or back; it really shouldn't be like that in 2016. Nouveau drivers are integrated much better, but their performance is lousy.
Yeah, no kidding. Just walking around in a public place here in the US, it's pretty obvious to me that, on average, it's the Asian women who are most attractive. Why? It's simple: how many fat Asian women do you ever see? They also seem to have an uncanny ability to not show any signs of aging until they're at retirement age.
Then they'll quickly figure out that, short-term, it's easier and faster to just submit to MS's wishes than to break themselves free.
Like it or not any company has to abide by the laws of the country they market their products in.
Not when the country is utterly dependent on that company and its products. You seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of what real power is, and how it can be wielded.
Do you honestly think that Microsoft could shut down all critical IT systems? If this was tried all Microsoft's assets in the country would be frozen and there would be a massive switch to alternative operating systems and applications around the world (yes you read correctly "the world").
See, this is where we disagree. I would love to see MS actually do this, and no, I really don't think there'd be a massive switch. MS has been making their systems more and more onerous for quite a while now, and no one's switched yet. I really don't think there's much of a limit to how much MS can abuse their customers. Don't forget, all these governments rely on all kinds of software that only runs on MS systems, and these ISVs aren't about to change either, because why should they? Their customers aren't going to switch to another vendor, because they're all locked in.
there are quite a few very smart IT people not living in the USA.
If there are, they aren't in decision-making positions because all these countries have happily made themselves completely dependent on an abusive US vendor instead of choosing one of many better alternatives. MS pulling the plug as a display of power isn't going to change this. The idiots will still be in charge, and will always be in charge. It'll be much, much easier to just submit to MS's wishes than to go to all the trouble of changing everything.
It's not silly. It earns them more revenue, which means more profit, which is good for the shareholders.
It may or may not be "desperate", but I sure don't see many people abandoning the Windows platform even with all these complaints about Windows 10. So if they can make more money with ads, and lose no real paying customers, why not do it?
No, you're an idiot. MS doesn't have to shut down their EU operation. They just have to shut down all the EU government computers for a week to show them who's really in control, and then triple their prices for them to be turned back on.
It's advertised as "professional", but you can advertise anything as that. The new Macbook Pro is also advertised as professional and it's consumer-grade too, though with a business-class price tag.
A car company could easily advertise a tiny mini-truck as "professional grade" and make a lame commercial of someone dropping loads of gravel in it (after modifying the suspension heavily so it doesn't collapse), but that doesn't really make it so.
Very informative link, thanks.
Most people are just plain dumb. I'm no expert sewer, and don't know what a "surger" is either, but I can certain understand that there's more than 1 brand of sewing machine, and I can certainly grasp the concept that there's different types of sewing machines for different and perhaps specialized purposes. Sewing is a craft that's been around since prehistory and the invention of cloth garments, which probably goes back tens of thousands of years, so of course there's going to be a certain amount of complexity to it, and many different types of stitches, and of course competing companies selling machines to do this.
Not only that, but anyone with even half a brain should know by now that there's Apple computers out there (PCs/laptops, not just iPhones) which are not the same as Windows PCs. They even have stores in malls selling their overpriced computers. This isn't highly esoteric tech stuff any more. But I don't doubt there's still morons who don't get it.
This is no grounds for abuse my MS
Now this just isn't true. In a capitalist system, it's a company's job to extract as much profit from its customers as possible. If the customers really are so uninformed and stupid that they won't leave that company no matter how badly they're treated, whose fault is it? If 90% of everyone keeps buying Chrysler cars even though they're unreliable junk and catch on fire frequently, and they simply refuse to even consider a GM, Ford, Toyota, Honda, Mercedes, etc., no matter what, who's fault is that? Especially when they have one friend who has a Honda and raves about how great it is and how they never worry about their car catching on fire or the wheels falling off, but in response these people just roll their eyes and make snide comments about him?
Don't forget, MS went through an extremely public trial about this back in 1999, which was all over the news. People have had literally years and even decades of warning about MS's behavior. And during this time, Macs (as much as I hate them these days) have grown from a bit player to a pretty sizable (though small minority) player, and Linux has been around for 2 decades now. After all this time, I simply have no more sympathy for people who suffer willingly with these abuses by MS. There *are* alternatives, they've been around for a very long time, there simply is no excuse any more. This really is a case of the frog refusing to leave the boiling water (except in real life, that's an old wive's tale and real frogs aren't that stupid; only humans are).
Yeah yanking their licenses would actually be illegal and the EU would then eat Microsoft until all that was left is visual basic.
Hahaha! How exactly do you propose they do that? Microsoft is an American company, not a European one. MS can easily ignore any judgments in the EU.
And on top of that, how exactly are they going to pursue a case when all their governments are shut down because they have no IT systems working?
Remember Microsoft is the dependent one, without continued sales they disappear.
How's that a problem? No one in the US is going to stop using their software, no matter what. And in the EU, it's pretty simple: pay up, or else. Having all your critical IT systems shut down makes it pretty hard to run a company or a country.
Yeah no kidding. What the hell is this crap, anyway? 'Rewards' program? What the hell? Is this a supermarket chain now?
It's a consumer-grade OS. What's wrong with borrowing a concept from another area of consumer economics?
Microsoft and Windows 10 has become a very, very bad joke, and I don't even want to say what I'm starting to think about the people who honestly think it's 'good' in any way, shape, or form.
Well I for one think it's great. I'm thoroughly enjoying these stories, and reading about Windows users being pissed off by this stuff. They could stop at any time, but they continue to line up to accept more abuse, so I might as well have a good laugh at their expense. It's not like they weren't warned; MS has been an abusive vendor for at least 3 decades now. If that isn't enough warning, I don't know what is.
Hopefully MS will grow a backbone and tell the EU to shove it, and force them to have ads too. If the EU refuses or gives them any legal problems, MS can simply shut down all their government computers, yank their licenses, etc.
You don't make yourself utterly dependent on someone, and then tell them what they can and can't do.
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This just keeps getting better and better. Go Satya!!
Hopefully, they'll next force full-screen advertising on startup, and periodically during use.
Huh?
I'm just passing the blame to the consumer. They're the ones who buy from companies like Apple, and enable this behavior.
This isn't the fault of a "capitalist system", it's the fault of stupid consumers.
If this were a monopoly situation, I'd feel a little differently. But Apple does not have anything even remotely resembling a monopoly. They sell a tiny minority of both smartphones and laptops. There's tons of alternatives out there, for both. Most people get along just fine with Android phones. Over in Asia, many people wouldn't dream of buying an iPhone because they lack critical features like dual SIM slots. Yes, they don't play well with others, but that's because stupid people give them exorbitant amounts of money for massively overpriced gadgets that are specifically designed to not play well with others. How can you blame Apple when they're just taking advantage of peoples' idiocy?
I make similar arguments about MS every time people start whining about how they're being abused by Win10, but to be fair, at least with MS there's a good argument that so much software and services is dependent on Windows and the MS ecosystem that it's not so easy to switch. (I still make the argument because I think they need it pointed out that part of the blame is on them for enabling that behavior with their money.) But with Apple, this just isn't the case. There's nothing you can do with an iPhone that you can't do with an Android phone, or with a MacBook that you can't do with a Thinkpad or Latitude, and with the alternatives you'll save a bunch of money too, and get something that actually does play at least somewhat well with others.
Does he complain about it? You should point out that he can certainly afford a $50-100 genuine Apple cable and has no business complaining since he can afford to buy the most expensive phone available.
Maybe this is why I don't have too many friends... that's OK, I prefer friends who are practical and not gullible trend-chasers.
So you buy a laptop that has fewer features and less capability, you pay 2-10x the price for it, and you need to buy and carry around a bunch of adapters for it, and you're OK with this?
That's some serious kool-aid you're drinking there. I can go buy a laptop for less than $500 that has all these features that are missing from the $2500 MBP.
Yeah, but the point is, who cares? You're not really supposed to be toting the thing around with a card inserted anyway; SD cards (on laptops anyway) are not meant to be permanently-mounted storage, they're meant to be used for data transfer only, such as being able to download the photos from your camera. When not in use, it's either empty or has a plastic filler card that doesn't stick out.
But it's true, the nicer laptops have spring-loaded slots, so the loaded SD card barely sticks out, while the crappy ones have non-spring-loaded slots. So Apple decided to go even cheaper than that and eliminate the slot altogether, while still charging an astronomical price for something that's a lot worse and less capable than a cheap-o $250 bargain basement laptop.
What I need from the technology industry is to PLAY WELL WITH OTHERS.
You are never, ever, going to get that from Apple. There's no use in crying about it. It's like getting mad that an insane serial killer won't stop trying to kill people, or that a rabid dog keeps trying to bite people. A tiger will never change its stripes. What people need to do is stop buying from companies like that.
No, the guy has a bit of a point, though he probably didn't express it very well.
The real key is that business laptops are not like consumer-grade laptops. Business laptops have to be more conservative, because they can be used in a lot of different environments, and compatibility and capability is more important than fancy looks and light weight and small size. Serious business laptops have always been bigger and bulkier, and have long retained older features for the sake of compatibility. I'm typing this now on an HP ProBook that's only about a year old, and it still has a VGA port. VGA is an ancient standard, and it's probably safe to eliminate it from consumer laptops now because everyone has an HDMI-capable TV now, but in many businesses, there's still conference room gear with VGA connections. Ethernet ports can be dropped in some slim, fancy, ultra-portable consumer laptop, but in a business laptop, it's necessary because WiFi might be down, or it might not even be allowed if you work in a secure installation.
Business laptops are not supposed to be attempting to lead the way technologically by eliminating legacy functions; they're supposed to be more conservative and hang onto this old stuff for longer. It's part of the trade-off. Yes, that results in a bulkier machine with old ports you might never use. If you don't like that, get a consumer laptop.
USB-C is a Standard, anyone can use that standard to make adaptors.
This is not Apple proprietary hardware.
Given Apples prices, I would guess most people will buy what adaptors they need (if any) from 3rd parties.
Hopefully, Apple will prevent that. They can easily add a check in the OS so that only Apple-approved dongles are allowed, and others are ignored. This would be a good thing to do in the name of "protecting the customer" from "potentially harmful" 3rd-party devices. And of course would be great for boosting Apple's profits. With the prices of Apple laptops, their customers can certainly afford to spend $50 or $100 each on adapters, and have no right to complain about this.
There's a large overlap between professional and "prosumer". Your typical wedding photographer is certainly a "professional", but they're not using a Hasselblad medium-format with a tethered digital back, they're just using a standard high-end DSLR, which these days all use SD cards.
Similarly, professional truck drivers don't all drive 18-wheelers; many just drive box trucks like the UPS and FedEx drivers. They're still professional drivers, and they're a huge market.
Finally, what does it matter if the "prosumer" enthusiasts aren't exactly full-time professionals? They still demand high-end gear and systems that work well with that gear, without needless and unnecessary workarounds just because non-enthusiast consumers don't care about these features. Do you think an offroad driving enthusiast cares that almost zero car drivers care about having a winch on their vehicle, and would be happy to go without just because the masses don't think it's necessary? How well do you think a new offroad vehicle (Jeep I guess) would sell if they made it impossible to mount a winch on it? Or how well would a full-size pickup truck sell if they made it impossible to tow with it?
This is total BS.
First off, not everything has to run Linux. Go look at the software running on your infuser pump; it's not Windows, nor is it Linux, it's some RTOS. Anything else would be criminally negligent. Your MRI machine doesn't need to run Linux (though it'd be nice), you just have to be able to communicate with it. What needs to run on Linux is the main infrastructure, patient records, billing, etc. Some scanner or whatever doesn't matter; if your MRI machine catches a virus and goes down, that sucks for anyone who had an MRI scheduled, but the rest of the hospital can continue operations without it, and not have to worry about getting infected by it too.
Finally, no hospital has "chiropractic thermal sensors", or chiropractic anything for that matter. Chiropractic isn't real medicine, it's bullshit, and you won't find it in a real hospital.